WordPress 2.1 Released

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A week after WordPress 2.0.7 has been released, the long awaited WordPress 2.1 “Ella” (named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald) has been finally released. Besides over 550 bug fixes, WordPress 2.1 includes the following new features:

Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again
Tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post
The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
Visual editor now includes spell checking
New search engine privacy option allows you to hide your blog from search engines like Google
You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system
Much more efficient and faster database code
Sub-categories support for links in blogroll
Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project
More AJAX to make managing things in WordPress instant
Pages can now be drafts, or private
WordPress Admin panel will now load faster and be more visually consistent
The dashboard now instantly brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background
Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10
Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages
The upload manager lets you easily manage all your pictures, video, and audio
A new version of the Akismet plugin (2.0) is bundled

That’s a great list of new features and there are even little easter eggs hidden everywhere, I will let you know if I find any

The WordPress team has decided to shift to a more frequent release schedule like Ubuntu, with major releases coming several times a year. Another happy news for us is that the next version (2.2) will be coming out on April 23rd

I had tested the WordPress 2.1 RC locally and loved the new features. I also found everything to be faster than before and liked the new login screen. I did not find the new spell checker exciting as Firefox already helps me with it, but the new Autosave feature will be very useful to me

Anyways, I won’t be upgrading this WordPress blog to 2.1 now due to plugin compatibility issues. I am not sure how many plugins are WordPress 2.1 ready, but there will be many plugins that are not compatible. So I think I should wait for some more time.

What about you…Will you upgrade?

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Posted on January 23rd, 2007 | Category: WordPress |

36 responses so far,

1

narayan

January 23, 2007 at 2:38 pm

oh ! I have just updated before some days my wordpress to 2.07 and here it is again with new version 2.1
amazing.
2

sourcer

January 23, 2007 at 2:43 pm

I have updated my blog and I have no problems, all plugins are working fine.

http://www.alexblogging.com/wo.....ated-to-21

Cheers John
3

Chris Lodge

January 23, 2007 at 3:55 pm

I like to leave these things at last a week, because nothing can be bug free on release. Plus, as you said, I wan to see what the score is with my favourite plugins first…

Looks like some great improvements though
4

Cucirca

January 23, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Wp 2.1 is great.
I’ve upgraded and all my plugins seem to be working good.
The only one I had to disable was Tiger Administration.
5

OptionPundit

January 23, 2007 at 6:24 pm

John, I need some help. hopefully you can help me.
1) I am using technoblue….when someone comment on past post…it gives the msg “The post you are trying to comment on does not curently exist in the database”
2) Slider on top is not working well i.e when someone click it says “page not found” I therefore disable the rolling archive options
3) Is you technoblue compatible with WP 2.1?

Thanks and appreciate your help,
OptionPundit.net
6

Enblogopedia

January 23, 2007 at 6:52 pm

I think I`ll wait a little bit…I said in my blog:

I`m too will wait a little since so professionals download the new release and make sure that there`re no security bugs or something.

and for those who aren’t sure what are the supported plugins they can check this list for help!

John BTW I see you have a lot of Links so the 3 column layout is fine too!
7

Ryan

January 23, 2007 at 8:10 pm

Chris, I’m with you on this one. All feature rich releases are sure to have bugs.
8

Dj Flush

January 23, 2007 at 8:34 pm

First of all John i must say your new layout is really nice

Now coming to wordpress 2.1, I dont think it is a good time for me to upgrade Sizlopedia as I have myself just started the blog and I m not aware of plugin compatibility issues

I think i should just move on for a bit and think about the upgrade in a matter of fortnite or so
9

Freesitebuilder

January 23, 2007 at 9:45 pm

I’ll wait at least a few days, as I’d rather let the experts find any bugs and problems first! And as I’m new to WP, my palms are still sweating from doing the upgrade to 2.0.7.
10

JC

January 23, 2007 at 10:36 pm

I’ll wait till they update it on my fantastico so that i avoid all the hassle of doing it manually…
11

Ryan

January 23, 2007 at 11:38 pm

Speaking of the new layout, is it just me or is there a horizontal scroll at the bottom of the page in Firefox? Why is the page so big?
12

Ian

January 24, 2007 at 1:07 am

Is your triplek-2 theme compatible with Wordpress 2.1
13

OptionPundit

January 24, 2007 at 1:41 am

JOhni found answer to “submit” thingy..I juts disabled the AJAX commenting. it’s working fine now.

Still trying to figure out why the slider is not funtioning.

Thanks,
OptionPundit
14

Andrew Cairns

January 24, 2007 at 2:06 am

I upgraded yesterday and found the whole process fairly painles… er, on the whole. My “painless upgrade” how to is here at http://www.andrewcairns.com.
15

The Reviewer

January 24, 2007 at 2:43 am

word press is keeping a list of know plugins that work and do not work, sadly I do not have the list on me right now. I think Darren posted a link to the list that does work. Or possibly at copyblogger.
16

Frank

January 24, 2007 at 6:36 am

Hey John .. I am using your technoblue theme (BTW LOVE IT) and went through the 2.07 upgrade without a problem. Thinking I may be Ok for 2.1, I tried the upgrade and got MYSQL error, specifically:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)' at line 1]
SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)

I suspect it may be your theme as going to a default theme or just the plain k2 seems to have eliminated the problem (email me for details). I also noticed the UTW (ultimate tag warrior) also had some issues with the 2.1 upgrade.

Anyways John - I love your Technoblue theme … Are there any plans to make it compatible with 2.1?

thanks in advance
Frank
17

ANshul

January 24, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Hey John,

Why did you change the layout? Previous one was better!
18

JohnTP

January 24, 2007 at 4:40 pm

Ryan-

Speaking of the new layout, is it just me or is there a horizontal scroll at the bottom of the page in Firefox? Why is the page so big?

At what resolution are you viewing this blog?

Ian, OptionPundit and Frank- I will try to make the theme compatible to 2.1 as soon as possible

Anshul- I wanted to try out Vizu and a few other things. And it was not possible with the previous 2 column layout.
19

Freesitebuilder

January 24, 2007 at 4:54 pm

Firefox scroll bar - I get this on FX, and not in IE, but in my case it’s mainly caused by my all-in-one sidebar icon bar, which is about 30 pixels wide. If I disable that, I still have the scroll, but only about 2 pixels.
20

JohnTP

January 24, 2007 at 5:09 pm

What’s your screen resolution? Can you send me a screenshot?
21

Ryan

January 24, 2007 at 9:28 pm

The layout looks good now… I think it had something to do with the far right column being shown at the bottom of the page.
22

JohnTP

January 24, 2007 at 9:43 pm

Ryan- Yes, I have seen that happen with some posts in IE. But in Firefox the layout displays well for me.
23

Don

January 25, 2007 at 9:58 am

I wish that I would have found this post earier. I lost a huge post this morning. The auto save feature woul dhave been nice…lol

I’m heading over to my host to download it now.

Thanks,

Don
24

nikita

January 26, 2007 at 9:34 pm

great..great… what do i’m waiting was released, i must be upgrade my wordpress blog.
25

erik

January 27, 2007 at 2:42 am

I have the same error- brand new install and your theme.

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_dat]

SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)
26

Alexander

January 27, 2007 at 9:08 pm

Thanks for this info
27

Dan Hurley

January 28, 2007 at 10:00 pm

John: I’ve been working on getting triplek2 just the way I want it before I open up my blog. Then I decided to go with 2.1, figuring better now than later when I might have an couple of visitors. A few plugins crapped out, but that was really for the best. I was getting pretty plugged up. I look forward to your 2.1 Triplek2 update. Thanks for the theme, playing with it has a great way to learn some basic css and WP.
28

Bill T

January 29, 2007 at 9:07 am

I just ran the update on 4 domains, running a variety of plugins; No issues here (so far).
29

Rafael Dohms

January 29, 2007 at 6:07 pm

Great to hear you are going to update TripleK2, I simply love the theme.

Check out the comments also, I got som SQL problems, it records the comment but returns erros on a “category” table SQL.

Will be on the watch for the upgrade.
30

trustman

February 3, 2007 at 10:32 pm

any news about your themes and wp 2.1? Thanks,
31

Matt

February 6, 2007 at 9:48 am

hello… I am using your TripleK2 theme and love it! thanks a ton.

Anyways, I’m trying to use Ultimate Tag Warrior, and I get the following error message on tag pages:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)' at line 1]
SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_post2tag p2t on wp_posts.ID = p2t.post_id INNER JOIN wp_tags t on p2t.tag_id = t.tag_id WHERE 1=1 AND ((post_type = ‘post’) AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’)) AND t.tag IN (’bettman’) GROUP BY ID GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)

any idea what may be the cause of this?

thanks for all of your great work!
32

Matt

February 6, 2007 at 10:29 am

I think I fixed my problem, but I’m going to need approval I was having the same problem as above on my category pages (database error)…
and I just found the following piece of code in /app/includes/info.php on line 132:

$num_days = $wpdb->query(”SELECT DISTINCT post_date FROM $from_where GROUP BY year(post_date), month(post_date), dayofmonth(post_date)”);

I removed this piece of code and re-upload the info.php file, and my error message has gone away.

Is this okay to do? Do you think it will mess anything else up?

thank you for your help!
33

JohnTP

February 8, 2007 at 8:53 am

TripleK2 users- I just updated TripleK2 and made it compatible to WordPress 2.1. You can download it from here.